Hey, I'm Greg here. How you doing alright?

We are making Series 3 right now.

In the meantime, we've been making these radio 4 versions of the previous episode.

We are putting them in the feed here permanently.

They will be alongside the long versions.

So make sure you scroll down and choose which version you want.

So you can have the shorter, punchier, swear-free versions.

Or the long, rambling, sweary versions.

Up to you. Thanks very much for listening.

Take care. Bye.

Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, the History Podcast for everyone.

For people who don't like history, people who do like history,

and people who forgot to learn any at school.

My name is Greg Jenner. I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster,

and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.

You might also have heard my Radio 4 series, Home School History,

although that one's mostly for the kids.

In this show, everything's a little bit different. Every episode I'm joined by expert historian

who is book smart and a comedian who is joke smart.

And today we are donning our by-corn hats,

having a paddle across the English channel and spending some quality time

with young Napoleon Bonaparte, looking at how he went from random course of

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